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Wikileaks: Time to celebrate, Time to mourn
DATELINE: 28/7/10It's time to celebrate.
It's a big win for Internet-based indy media that WikiLeaks.org posted its "Afghan War Diary" based on 90,000 leaked U.S. military records detailing a failing war in which U.S. and allied forces have repeatedly killed innocent civilians. This on-the-ground material is vaster than the Daniel Ellsberg-leaked Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, and was much faster in reaching the public.
Fears for Bradley Manning after Wikileaks 'dump'
DATELINE: 27/7/10What happens now to the US soldier who - it is widely assumed - supplied the Wikileaks material? As journalists at the Guardian and the New York Times will attest after spending three weeks going through the material, the unloading of US secret military documents via Wikileaks was more of a "dump" than a "leak". A staggering 90,000 documents were given to Wikileaks and passed on to the two newspapers and the German magazine Der Spiegel in an effort to give the material maximum exposure.
Net censorship finds a new expression
DATELINE: 27/7/10A recent item on the NUJ London Freelance branch web site http://www.londonfreelance.org/fl/1007spin.html rehearses the recent history of the Spinprofiles affair (sometimes called 'Spinprofilesgate'), in which a website was rendered inaccessible after an individual complained about it to the registrar for the site's domain name. This represents a potentially worrying new form of censorship.
Embedded with the Bankers
DATELINE: 22/7/10Banner Theatre has been working with the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom and the National Union of Journalists to develop Embedded with the Bankers, a new 25-minute live music and video performance, which asks the question: Why didn't the UK media warn the British public about the impending banking collapse and recession?
Licence fee for 'wasteful' BBC will be cut
DATELINE: 19/7/10
The broadcaster has been responsible for "extraordinary and outrageous" waste in recent years and needs to recognise the "very constrained financial situation" the country is now in, Mr Hunt says. In an interview in today's Daily Telegraph, Mr Hunt says the broadcaster needs to change "huge numbers" of things that it does, warning the management that they should not interpret his silence on the issue of the licence fee since the election as a sign that he is happy with it.
Why Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) matters
DATELINE: 14/7/10We all know what comes from rampant and unrestrained commercial activity: a worship of Mammon to the exclusion of everything except the feeding of company directors' and financiers egos and greed. In broadcasting, unrestrained commerce equals a low grade, populist cultural diet heavily polluted with advertising. Many supporters of PSB think that is a case of 'nuff said'. Were it only that easy.
Communication via the web 'came of age' in 2010 general election
Ministry of Justice announces draft defamation bill
Rules on stop and search changed
Ofcom rejects complaints over Sky News election coverage
Puttnam on the PCC: 'I'd give it a year'
BBC Trust rejects 6 Music closure but the campaign goes on
AGM feedback
2010 general election: game changer for politics...and media
Ofcom opens debate on net neutrality
NUJ shock at ITV bid decisions
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DATELINE: 2/7/10A series of potential projects for 2010-11 arose from the campaign's annual general meeting in London on 26 June. Two resolutions (including an emergency motion) were passed - see AGM papers below - and a quartet of guest speakers set out the issues in media policy in the wake of the UK General Election.
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
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MEDIA FOR ALL CONFERENCE 09
DATELINE: 26/3/10
Media for All Conference 09
Conference Papers
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al jazeera
AllConferences.Com - Directory of Conferences, conventions, exhibits, seminars, workshops, events, trade shows and business meetings. Includes calendar, dates, location, web site, contact and registration information.
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
allmediascotland - a directory and portal for the scottish media industry
alter-eu - The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation
arab media watch
archives of the weekly spin
bad subjects: political education for everyday life - from the University of California at Berkeley
bectu (broadcast, entertainment, cinematograph and theatre union)
Brass Check TV
British Helsinki Human Rights Group
british journalism review
campaign for freedom of information
Civil Rights Movement
columbia journalism review
committee to protect journalists
community media association
Corporate Europe Observatory: CEO is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
corporation watch (US)
cris - the campaign for communication rights in the information society
cultural studies mailing list (FAQ)
Disinformation - US site combining analysis, rumour, paranoia and alternative lifestyles.
ePolitix - get your own e-mail news feed
europa: 'an internet site covering Europe as a common area of freedom, security and justice' - web site of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs
European Institute for the Media
european journalism centre
global journalism review
global village cat - access TV worldwide
ideosphere: non-profit media consultancy (sweden)
Index on Censorship - international campaign for free expression, based on publication and website
indymedia: independent media
information clearing house
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
international federation of journalists
International Network for Cultural Diversity
International News Safety Institute
International Women's Media Foundation - US based organisation aimed at increasing women's participation in the media.
jihad unspun - 'a clear view of the war against terror'
kurdishmedia.com
Liberty's 'yourrights' online provides information and access to advice on human rights issues such as free expression and privacy as well as information on the specific rights of various individuals and groups.
media alliance (US)
media communications policy resources (from Katharine Sarikakis of Leeds university)
media reform - us-based campaigning group also known as Free Press
media watch mailing list
media workers against the war
medialens: the real news from the US
michael moore's site
Middle East Media Guide
national union of journalists (UK & Ireland)
New book: Creating Fear - News and the construction of crisis, David L. Altheide
new internationalist
new internationalist online
notwar.net - quirky international peace group with details of hundreds of campaigning peace groups
NUJ Brussels branch
NUJ Glasgow branch
NUJ New Media industrial council
Observatoire Français des Médias (French only)
Ofcom website - the uk's broadcasting and telecoms regulator
One World
One World TV
pr watch's 'spin of the day'
Pressnet: Journalists, Journalism and Mass Media in Internet.
presswise
Public Voice, a voluntary sector coalition campaigning on citizens' interests in communications.
RAM (Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Mass media) project bulletin
red pepper - campaigning journal & web site
save welsh tv
Schnews - weekly newsletter from: Justice? Brighton's Direct Action Collective
send e-mail to altmedia (you have to subscribe first)
signs of the times
sp media watch
spinwatch - monitoring PR and spin in the public interest (independent UK-based group)
stop war web site
subscribe to 'the weekly spin'
Taking Sides weblog on IRAQ
the memory hole
truth out - a US Democrat news site
undercurrents (for the news you don't see on the news)
US Free Press
vertigo - independent UK film magazine
VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer - working for quality and diversity in British broadcasting)
who owns what - from columbia journalism review
wordpower: books to change our world
working for change (US)
world association for christian communication (WACC)
world association of community radio broadcasters
world commission on the social dimension of globalisation (ilo)
writers' guild of great britain
